Click to play videoKolkata: Nandigram haunts the CPM today but the West Bengal government has accepted that it did make mistakes in handling the matter.
“The Central Committee has noted that some mistakes have been committed in the handling of the affair as stated by the Chief Minister,” General Secretary, CPM, Prakash Karat said.
After three days of deliberations by the party’s highest decision-making body on what has been the biggest crisis to hit the state government, the CPM finally accepted that the government did err.
The party has directed its state unit to enquire into what led to the police action that killed 14 villagers in Nandigram.
The government has also said that if police excesses are established then they will promise immediate action.
CNN-IBN has learnt that at the party’s politburo meeting Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had to face an uncomfortable volley of questions from both West Bengal and Kerala comrades but the party says its backing the CM in his quest to industrialise West Bengal.
“The party will go from people to people to explain the role of the government in implementing land reform and need for industrialisation,” Karat said.
It’s the pro-worker, pro-peasant image of the party that has taken a serious blow. The party leadership is desperately trying to lower the pitch of the criticism within to begin with but then the leadership also wants to send out the message that Nandigram is an isolated incident.
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